All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

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

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?