There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.