A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language ….

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing bo….

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment..

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love..

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes..

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment..

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service..

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech..

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does..

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it..

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart..

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine….

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is to….

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure..

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to l….

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat ….

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of til….

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas..

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come t….

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and gramm….