I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.