The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

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.

He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker.

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

We live in ugly times.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.