There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.