The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

Reading means borrowing.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.