Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.