I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

Time is money, be a better you.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.