Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

The British government is a murder machine.

I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.