Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.