The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.