As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Not till we are completely lost or turned around... Do we begin to find ourselves.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone..
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Things do not change; we change
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.