The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.