A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.