Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.