Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose