Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

The test of happiness is gratitude.