Mark Twain Quote

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.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Chapter II (pp. 8-9), Oxford University Press, Inc. 1996