A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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 enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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?
Man has his will, but woman has her way.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.
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.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks?
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
