Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

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.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.”“Yeah, ” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.

In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.