“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”

“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”

“In fair weather prepare for foul”

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers”

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away”