There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.