From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam.
A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.