Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.