Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
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