Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.