“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

True invective requires great imagination.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about-I am looking for a human.