Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

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.

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

Thinking nurseth thinking.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.