In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.