Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

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.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.

If I am not for myself who will be?

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!

I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don’t know.

God goes to work with you and does the laundry with you too. There's no place that God is not.