People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

from what we cannot hold the stars are made

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

There is no such thing as loving or believing too much.

Never had ill workeman good tooles.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.