Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.