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Joe Paterno: Publicity is like...

Joe Paterno: Publicity is like...

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Source: In The...

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We do not...

We do not...

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

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The incognito of...

The incognito of...

The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges.

Source: On Going a...

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The garb of...

The garb of...

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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The player envies...

The player envies...

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Source: In

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Each of us...

Each of us...

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person. . . and a person...

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The best religion...

The best religion...

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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Though analogy is...

Though analogy is...

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

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A man only...

A man only...

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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Will the reader...

Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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How reconcile this...

How reconcile this...

How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of...

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When we do...

When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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Somebody was using...

Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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If I had...

If I had...

If I had my way, no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust under the United...

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The lunatic fringe...

The lunatic fringe...

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy, Sententiae:...

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Moral certainty is...

Moral certainty is...

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows...

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The worst government...

The worst government...

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and human. But when fanatics are...

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Human progress is...

Human progress is...

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Source:...

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When distant and...

When distant and...

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a...

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Happiness is composed...

Happiness is composed...

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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