If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?