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.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.