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.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

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

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.