It is not what you would do with your millionsshould riches ness be your lot. It is what you are doing at presentwith the dollar and quarter you've got.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Even a broken watch is correct twice a day.

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.