A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.