There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

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

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.