Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.