A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

The last Christian died on the cross.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.