Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The best thing I’ve learned, and still believe, is that I don’t have to be perfect to start, I have to start... so I can begin learning and growing.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

The best live among us in disguise.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.