Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.