Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

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

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.