Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

A nation is only great when its citizens fall in love with the art of dwelling in peace and unity.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.