Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

The problem with education is school.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?