Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.