Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

Only six need be attempted.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true