If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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