The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.