“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
Change“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.”
Society“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
Change“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
Technology“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Power“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
Power“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
Sports“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
Technology“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.”
Knowledge“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
Truth“Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.”
Great“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Positive“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Business“Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
Humor“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
Change“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
Failure“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
Future“Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.”
Best“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
Attitude“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
Money“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
Age“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
Patriotism