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.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.