I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in 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.

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

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.