“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
Society“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Wisdom“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Friendship“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
Age“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Nature“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.”
Science“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
Nature“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
Faith“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
Faith“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
Best“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 main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Great“Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.”
Men“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
Society“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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Happiness“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Art“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Truth“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
Friendship