You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.