How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.