If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Look, don't just stare at the pages, " I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

The life is cruel death to me without you.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.