If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.