Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.