Birth: 1858 Death: 1932
You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may ….
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again..
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning..
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food..
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape..
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged..
Childhood has no necessary connection with age..
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors..
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a ….
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger..
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food..
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them..
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom..
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread..
Charity is the note that resolves the discord..
Those who deserve love the least need it the most..
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father..
Power should answer by action, not by speech..
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water..
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus..