It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.