School gets in the way of my learning.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.