The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

you can't beat me and my prayers!

Every tub sits on its bottom.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.