A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.