It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.