The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.