The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.