Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. |
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. |
Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th |
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' |
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. |
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. |
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. |
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time! |
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust |
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles |
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. |
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice |
Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. |