Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.