"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

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

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it."

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."

"What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them."

"Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

"Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."

"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time."

"So little time and so little to do."