Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

There are no illegitimate babies.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person