"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."

"Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult."

"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 34 percent guaranteed.)"