Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

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

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

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

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.