"Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"