Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

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.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

You know, I could have carried you.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

its been a long night" "aren't they all?

You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.