Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

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.

You may eventually decide to breakup, and that’s fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.

I guess you've got a spice of temper, " commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

If somebody tells me they want something or they want something to happen and if it's in my power to make it happen, I start working on it thinking they meant it.