It is easier to stay out than get out.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene