By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.