The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.