It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.