I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.