There are no new ideas about female education.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."