I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.