Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

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.

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.

Sometimes, the things people don't say are louder than the words that come out of their mouths.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

The better you get, the better you better get.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.