I do not know what I think until I write it.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Choose silence of all virtues$$$ for by it you hear other men's imperfections$$$ and conceal your own.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The play was a great success$$$ but the audience was a dismal failure.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Patriotism is$$$ fundamentally$$$ a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton$$$ you may as well make it dance.