Belgium's royal palace is still what it has been for the last 14 years: a lair of a wild beast that for its money every year mutilates, murders and s… - Mark Twain

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example.

I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo — that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture — great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast — for luncheon — for dinner — for tea — for supper — for between meals. I like a change, occasionally.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.