Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I truly believe Colin Kaepernick could be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.