Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

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.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

The truth cannot be woven out of a string of lies.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Another story must begin!

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.