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

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.