You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.