To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.