Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.