The problem with education is school.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.