The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.