Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Let man be true and every god a liar.