“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.”

“There is only one thing that that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”

“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.”

“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”