To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.