What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.