The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.