Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.