A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.