Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Oh, ” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel Korey, from watching Emily

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.