A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.