I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Trees are your best antiques

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.