I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.