You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.