"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."

"Earth laughs in flowers."

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."

"Children are all foreigners."

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."

"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both."

"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes."

"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state."

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."

"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."

"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."

"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."