What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.