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

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

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

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.

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

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

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