Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.