The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.