Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.