He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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