All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.