All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.