Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.