One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.