The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.