Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
The best servant does his work unseen.
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?
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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.
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.
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 give you anything I have.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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