Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

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

Joy is the best of wine.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.