"Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."

"'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow."

"His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"

"He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge."

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."