"I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"