Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.