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"He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming."
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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."
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"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
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"I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
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"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
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"Remember the poor - it costs nothing"
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"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten."
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"A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it."
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"Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
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