There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.