There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.