Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To take the world as one finds it