To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

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

Man has his will, but woman has her way.