When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.