One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

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.

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.