If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.