It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else