My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

I have seen the future, and it works.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.