“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You become what you think about all day long.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Some books are lies frae end to end.