Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.