No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.