The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.