Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relat….

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend..

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut t….

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born..

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive..

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end i….

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul..

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that w….

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn..

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear..

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust..

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they ha….

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living..

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would gi….

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant..

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them..

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them..

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite..