We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.