Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. |
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. |
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness |
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? |
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. |
She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse. |
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? |
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment |
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. |
Simplify, simplify. |
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. |
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. |
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk |
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. |
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. |