If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes