Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are. |
Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire |
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. |
One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.'' |
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. |
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. |
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. |
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. |
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity |
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never |
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor |
Only poetry inspires poetry. |
Only so much do I know, as I have lived |
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read. |
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest. |