Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

You are blowing my mind.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.