You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

School gets in the way of my learning.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.