Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.