“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
Imagination“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
Good“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
Imagination“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
Fear“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
Education“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
Good“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Education“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
Art“Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.”
Power“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Love“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
Intelligence“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
Happiness“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”
Success“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
Change“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
Patience“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”
Art“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Power“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”
Hope“To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Positive“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Business“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
Experience“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.”
Marriage