Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently