There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.