Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.