Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.