Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird.