Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.