“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ”

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves,And on thy dial write, "Beware of thieves!"Felon of minutes, never taught to feelThe worth of treasures which thy fingers steal,Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,But spare the right,--it holds my golden time!”

“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.”

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”