The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!