One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.