The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.