Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.