Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.