Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

To lead people walk behind them.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.