There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.