If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety.