You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.