I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.