"Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance."

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

"Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character."

"The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions."

"I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men"

"If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste."

"If you want to remember me, organize!"

"To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence."

"In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love."

"In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation."

"Self dedication is a spiritual experience."

"The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it."

"Jake had begun to carry chalk in his pockets, also. He wrote brief sentences. He tried to word them so that a man would think."

"The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing"

"Tenderness is a virtue."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

"The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."

"The very pink of perfection."

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"Civilization is the making of civil persons."

"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"