Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.