Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.