“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

“To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.”

“In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.”