For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.