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

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.