The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.