“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Hope“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
Imagination“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
Faith“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“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Great“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
Men“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
History“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
Nature“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Beauty“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
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“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Friendship“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“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“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“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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Happiness“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
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