Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

In love, you pay as you leave.

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.