The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example