“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”

“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.”

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”

“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”

“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”