Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.