Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Stimulate the phagocytes.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!