If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.