Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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.