There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.


Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.