It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.

...Opinion without a rational process.

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.