I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.