The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn..

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good..

Have the courage to act instead of react..

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'..

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face..

[Science is] piecemeal revelation..

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it..

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all..

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life..

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding..

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer..

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend..

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings..

Beware how you take away hope from any human being..

The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members ….

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose..

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts..

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel..

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long e….

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth..

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers..