The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.