Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.