All my adult life people have been helping me.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted evidently an effrontery.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort any sort rather than no sort.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.