No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.