It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.