Books are the liberated spirits of men.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.