A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.