Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest