Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.