Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.