Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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 the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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 the embroidery.
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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