Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.