The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

You can't have the family farm without the family.