Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

[Science is] the literature of truth.