There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.