The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.