Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.