Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.