An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.