The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

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.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.