Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

You can’t always get it right, if you fail, and it will happen, accept it, jump back on and try again

There are now over 5, 000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.