I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.