"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

"Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us."

"Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized …"

"Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history o…"

"God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked."

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it …"

"Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No rew…"

"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to b…"

"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the bal…"

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."