If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

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.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Music gives strength to the soul.

Some men prefer the heady tang of revenge to the comfort of cash.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.