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

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.

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.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds

How many people has this hotel eaten?

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.