The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

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.

True love is when all differences vanish with mere eye contact.

The beauty of the present and the future can only be seen by those who are willing to let go of the past.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.