Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.