If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.