We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.