A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.