If we could see ourselves as others see us we would vanish on the spot.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths which come about us like birds seeking inlet, but we are shut up to them and so they bring us nothing but sit and sing awhile upon the roof and then fly away.

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

It's a little too early to tell what happened ... This had the appearance of a well-planned and well-negotiated deal that was designed to be released on Monday.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of science.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master, for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate and in disobeying the other we are fools.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Who seeks shall find.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

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