7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

life is hard.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his own country;--seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes.

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.But . . . an onion a day keeps everyone away.

Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Outer agitation reveals inner instability.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain .

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.