"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."

"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."