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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.
  The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual....
• INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights.
  For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools....
• Dear Miss Manners: My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's elbows on the table.
  However, I have read that one elbow, in between courses, is all right....
• If you expect something free to live up to your expectations, you had better be prepared to see your expectations shattered, since there is no such thing as a free lunch.
• You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?
  "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrity to defend....
• Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesso
  On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings....