"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."

"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."