Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.

"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note. Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care. Because death is moment

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.

Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.