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

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

Apology is only egotism wrong side out..

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

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

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer..

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..

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

[Science is] piecemeal revelation..

Have the courage to act instead of react..

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 ….

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

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

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

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated i….

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged….

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

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….

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

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face..

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