An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

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.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.