“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality
“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
“In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night