Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Trouble's made us kin.
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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