In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.