“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”

“Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.”

“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.”