Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.