Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.