Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
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.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
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