"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."

"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature."

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter."

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek."

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."