Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.