To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.