If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.