The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.