Be sure of the fact, before you lose time in searching for a cause. - Horace Mann

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.