I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The things that hurt us teach us.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.