It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.