Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

Chess is one long regret.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

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

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