Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
The best servant does his work unseen.
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?
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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 sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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.
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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?
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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