Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.