Laughter means sympathy.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

We are the playthings of the gods.