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

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.

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.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

dear me i think i can run miles after miles through my mind by imaginary flyover, gather all together to write down on my notebook.

I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.