If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!