The secret of making progress is to get started.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.