I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

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.

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Rest is for the dead.