I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

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

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.