"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."

"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."

"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

"We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness."

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity."

"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."

"EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort."

"Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy."

"How long halt ye between two opinions?"

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."