No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
Spring makes everything young again except man.
My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.