“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“Man is the only animal who blushes...or needs to.”