"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"Make yourself do something stupid, so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad."

"The way I see it, God put me on Earth to achieve a certain number of things. By now I'm so far behind, I'll never die."

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."

"I could have gone on flying through space forever."

"YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)"

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."