History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.