In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.