There's A Joy Without Canker Or Cark,

Again, If There Are Really No Fairies, Why Do People Believe In Them, All Over The World? The Ancient Greeks Believed, So Did The Old Egyptians, And The Hindoos, And The Red Indians, And Is It Likely, If There Are No Fairies, That So Many Different Peoples Would Have Seen And Heard Them?

Young Men, Especially In America, Write To Me And Ask Me To Recommend “a Course Of Reading.” Distrust A Course Of Reading! People Who Really Care For Books Read All Of Them. There Is No Other Course.

Politicians Use Statistics In The Same Way That A Drunk Uses Lamp-postsfor Support Rather Than Illumination.

An Unsophisticated Forecaster Uses Statistics As A Drunken Man Uses Lamp-posts - For Support Rather Than For Illumination.

. . . Had I A River I Would Gladly Let All Honest Anglers That Use The Fly Cast Line In It, But, But Where There Is No Protection, Then Nets, Poison, Dynamite, Slaughter Of Fingerlings, And Unholy Baits Devastate The Fish, So That 'free Fishing' Spells No Fishing At All.