They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.