Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.