Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

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.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.