My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.