"It is dreams that will survive, for a dream is immortal."

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

"Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies."

"What one has not experienced one will never understand in print."

"Climbing would be a great, truly wonderful thing if it weren't for all that damn climbing."

"A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows."

"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."

"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."

"There are no office hours for leaders."

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."