If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.