"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along."

"Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."

"In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta."

"A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true."

"Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse."

"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)."

"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed."

"There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well."

"I would have made a good Pope."

"You shall more command with years than with your weapons."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."