“Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.”

“We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.”

“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.”

“Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word,...”

“The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.”

“Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.”

“He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.”

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and imp...”

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”