Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
They did not know it was impossible so they did it.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.
You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink – under any circumstances.