Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

by Mark Twain

It was not my opinion; I think there is no sense in forming an opinion when there is no evidence to form it on. If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion.

I can endure your lies, but not your love. Keep that corruption for somebody with a stronger stomach than mine.