The southerner talks music.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.