A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

Maryel brought her bat into Exit once and started whacking people on the dance floor. Now everyone's doing it. It's called grand slam dancing.

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courag

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If Presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country.

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.