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For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not b...more

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how mu...more

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is th...more

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Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that ...more