Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.