Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.