'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.