Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.