There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.