Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.