We only half live when we only half think.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.