Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.