Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.