It is a poor workman who blames his tools.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

For your heart is your life, and your life can only be altered by that which is the real working of your heart. And if your prayer is only a form of words, made by the skill of other people, such a prayer can no more change you into a good man, than an actor upon the stage, who speaks kingly language, is thereby made to be a king: whereas one thought, or word, or look, towards God, proceeding from your own heart, can never be without its proper fruit, or fail of doing a real good to your soul. Again, another great and infallible benefit of this kind of prayer is this; it is the only way to be delivered from the deceitfulness of your own hearts. [Continued tomorrow].

A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long; Here's health and renown to his broad green crown, And his fifty arms so strong. There's fear in his frown when the Sun goes down, And the fire in the West fades out; And he showeth his might on a wild midnight, When the storms through his branches shout.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

It's only words...unless they're true.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

"Is ignorance or apathy the biggest problem with the world today?" "I don't know and I don't care".

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

If you can't beat them, join them.

Vanity, like murder, will out.

Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.