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

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.

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.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Bernie Mac don't sugarcoat.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.