You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.