We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.