The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

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

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.