The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. |
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. |
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. |
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. |
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. |
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. |
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. |
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. |
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity |
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. |
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. |
The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions |
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples |