"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

"It is a timeless truth that life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page."

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

"To master the mind is to understand that the journey is far more important than the destination."

"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."

"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."