What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!