One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.