If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.