When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.