Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.