1. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a companion, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
2. ”A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
3. “A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home-ground, home-made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a coffee is a match for twenty blue devils, and will exorcise them all.”
4. “A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.”
5. “All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”
6. “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
7. ”A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
8. “As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.”
9. “Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.”
10. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
11. “Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
12. “Clothes and manners do not make the man, but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
13. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
14. “Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.”
15. ”Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages.”
16. ”Faith is spiritualized imagination.”
17. “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
18. “Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”
19. “God never ordained you to have a conscience for others. Your conscience is for you, and for you alone.”
20. “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
21. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
22. "I can forgive but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive."
23. “Ignorance is the womb of monsters.”
24. "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
25. "It is not mere cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement."
26. “Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.”
27. “Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
28. “Law represents the effort of men to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
29. “Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.”
30. “Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.”
31. “Let us pity those poor rich men who live barrenly in great bookless houses! Let us congratulate the poor that, in our day, books are so cheap that a man may every year add a hundred volumes to his library for the price of what his tobacco and beer would cost him. Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, indeed, among all that are struggling up from nothing to something, is that of owning and constantly adding to a library of good books. A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a young man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”
32. “Liberty is the soul's right to breath.”
33. “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
34. “Love is the river of life in the world.”
35. "Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
36. "Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh."
37. “Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
38. “No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.”
39. ”Now comes the mystery.”
40. ”Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.”
41. “Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.”
42. “Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.”
43. “Thank God for books! And yet thank God that the great realm of truth lies yet outside of books, too vast to be mastered by types or imprisoned in libraries.”
44. “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
45. “The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"
46. “There is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge and there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.”
47. ”The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”
48. “To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”
49. “We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.”
50. “We sleep, but the loom of live never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.”
51. “What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
52. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
53. ”You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.”
54. “Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”
