Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
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.
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
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...
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
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...
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.
Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
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