One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

I am only human, although I regret it.