312 quotes found
“A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.”
“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...”
“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.”
“I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.”
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.”
“Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!”
“For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some ...”
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.”
“The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.”
“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.”
“Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.”
“Don't be consistent but be simply true.”
“Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.”
“Man has his will - but woman has her way.”
“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.”
