But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.