We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.