The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Rags will never make fine clothing

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

Death renders all equal.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?