Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.