“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Nature“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Knowledge“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
Imagination“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Friendship“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
Music“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
Freedom“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
History“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
Truth“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
Science“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
Good“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
Best“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Money“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
Men“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
Faith“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Wisdom“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Art