To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.