Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

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.

Do not say

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

Stay put in the hard places, and you'll eventually rest upon the mountaintop.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.