No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

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.