“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“I am at two with nature.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”