«An unusually tranquil skyscraping vantage-a kind of front porch 850 feet in the air.»

«Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously»

«TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.»

«I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary»

«When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.»

«Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.»