312 quotes found
“When in doubt do it.”
“Systems die instincts remain.”
“Logic is logic. That's all I say.”
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or rev...”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
“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. ...”
“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.”
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevi...”
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a ...”
“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked”
“A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~”
“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
“The Last LeafI saw him once before,As he passed by the door,And againThe pavement stones resound,As he totters o'er the groundWith his cane.They say that in his prime,Ere the pruning-knife of TimeC...”
“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
