[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

One must travel, to learn.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.