There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Talent without work is useless, thank God