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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible