Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Sometimes people do get hurt

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.