The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.