The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.