We are what we laugh at. The stupid person is a poor joke, the clever, a
good one.
If every man who resents being called a rogue resented being one this
would be a world of wrath.
Force and charm are important elements of character, but it counts for
little to be stronger than honey and sweeter than a lion.
Grief and discomfiture are coals that cool:
Why keep them glowing with thy sighs, poor fool?
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites
them to think something else.
Asked to describe the Deity, a donkey would represent him with long ears
and a tail. Man's conception is higher and truer: he thinks of him as
somewhat resembling a man.
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
The sky is a concave mirror in which Man sees his own distorted image
and seeks to propitiate it.
Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land,
but do not hope that the life insurance companies will offer thee
special rates.
Persons who are horrified by what they believe to be Darwin's theory of
the descent of Man from the Ape may find comfort in the hope of his
return.
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