Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow.

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.