It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person’s neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If one keep to the things he knows, and not trouble about the things which he cannot be sure about, he will have the steadier mind for it.
I don’t want no better book than what your face is.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
I couldn’t bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn’t think about nothing else.
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius.
Hunger is pride’s master.
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
How empty is theory in presence of fact!
