Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.