It is a very fine thing to refuse an invitation, but it is a good thing to wait till you get it first.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.