Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.'].

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.