Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.