The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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 secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
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.
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or ev...
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
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.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such...
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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