What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Habit is a form of exercise.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

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.

Growth is often a painful process.