“I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like. Yours respectfully, O. Abe.”

“For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.”

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”

“Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?”

“Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.”

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!”

“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.”