On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.