The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect myself from the uncertainties of the world.

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'