The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.