“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“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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Happiness“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
Men“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”
Death“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 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 main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Great“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Friendship“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!”
Best“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 real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
Religion“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.”
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