Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!