Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?