Use the right word, not its second cousin.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.