The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.