If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.