The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?