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

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

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

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

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

[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.