College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.