A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Hitler was about population control.