You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion