If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
'Mid pleasures and palaces through we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.