The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.