As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.