The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.