The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.