If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.