Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.