His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.