"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long."

"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decksWhich practically conceal its sex.I think it clever of the turtleIn such a fix to be so fertile."

"When there are monsters there are miracles."

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

"Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun."

"There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."

"MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government."

"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."