The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.