A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.