History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.