Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.