Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.