Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.