I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important th...
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Systems die instincts remain.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that...
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating...
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
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