A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?