I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.