When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.