And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.