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

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

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

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

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

[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.

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