She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.