Law dies, books never.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Blue and green should never be seen together, but the person wearing this mix, will be of interest.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.