"Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God."

"Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned."

"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."

"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."

"When in doubt do it."

"When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must."

"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result."

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."

"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."

"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."

"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."

"So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith."

"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

"I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."

"Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance."

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."

"Husband and wife come to look alike at last."

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

"What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!"