“The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
“Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.”
“That which builds is better than that which is built.”
“If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
“At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.”
“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”
“Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.”
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
“Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
“No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.”
“The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.”
“Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.”
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
“Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
“That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.”
“Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.”
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?”
“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.”
“The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.”