One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.