A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be read more

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be read more

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by read more

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.