If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.