312 quotes found
“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the w...”
“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were...”
“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate i...”
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
