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.

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.

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

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.