I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.