Archives - June 2002

Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue --- you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night --- there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

An Eye for an Eye just makes the whole World blind.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations --- such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

The world is a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

We all need to learn a lesson from crayons. Some are sharp, some have weird names, and they are all kinds of colors. But in the end, they all have to learn to live in the same box.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The world is a great book, he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent, only perfect practice makes perfect.

How glorious it is --- and also how painful --- to be an exception.

I am not confused, I'm just well mixed.

Every man's memory is his private literature.