Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!