Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil

Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness.

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.