The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.