“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
Science“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
Best“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
Men“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
Nature“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Truth“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
Society“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Beauty“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
Faith“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Money“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
Courage“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Home“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
History“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 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