You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

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

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world