It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.