If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.