A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
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.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
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.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in yo...
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
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...
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
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