“The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”

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

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Poetry is dangerous.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

I’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Beg me to fill your body with my dangerous seed.