I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.