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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.