There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.