Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.