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.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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...
Systems die instincts remain.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre ha...
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroide...
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.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
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.
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