Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.