"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"Mental toughness is essential to success."

"But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree."

"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured."

"Do good and don't worry to whom."