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.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Dangerous Are the ways of love ….Baby dangerous When you can’t get enough …Lonely nights are spent in vain

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.