Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

The Library is the heart of the University.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

To be free, you must think. There is no way to follow blindly and to be free.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Take your tent and go for the camping! You are dying in the cities! Thousands of stars, hundreds of birds, tens of flowers are waiting for you to heal you!

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.