25 quotes found
“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked”
“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
“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 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.”
“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. ...”
“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
“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.”
“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 a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”
“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is...”
