I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.