He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.