Wife: a former sweetheart.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.