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.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.