To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

It is your human environment that makes climate

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.