William Mathews Quotations

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.

We do all our work within the institutions, thus eliminating the risk of transporting prisoners outside for dental services.

We are proud to be working with the Department of Corrections for our 20th year.

We're people who want to make a difference and help, ... It's time to set the record straight: We're not bootstrapping, skull-crushing mercenaries. We don't believe we'll make a profit here. We ran to the fire because it was burning.

We're people who want to make a difference and help. It's time to set the record straight: We're not bootstrapping, skull-crushing mercenaries. We don't believe we'll make a profit here. We ran to the fire because it was burning.

There certainly are some bad apples out there that give ammunition to the press and allow the perpetuation of that characterization.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth

The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.