Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
It may be those who do most, dream most.
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.