Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

- Joseph Fort Newton

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

- Joseph Fort Newton

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.

- Joseph Fort Newton, The Lost Symbol