Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain

The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an average truth.