History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives vali

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short.