I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he`d learned in seven years.
Do something everyday that you don`t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
