I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.