O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

cady is dandy, but liquor is quicker, (Ogden Nash).

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

What is the end of study, let me know? What, that to know which else we should not know. Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense? Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through." I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along: But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong. One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away, And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do, You get somebody else or wait till I get through."

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

"Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.