It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.