Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.