Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.