Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We only need grace to endure every situation.

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Honourable is right.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.