The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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 books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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