If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.