There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. |
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. |
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. |
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. |
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. |
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' |
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. |
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. |
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. |
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. |
Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him |
To be at all is to be religious more or less |
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. |
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. |
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. |