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

A better idea than my own is to listen.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Never mistake motion for progress.