In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.

Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.