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

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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