...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.