Have the courage to act instead of react.
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.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything kno...
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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