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

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

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

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.