The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

... 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.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

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.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.