Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.