“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Beauty“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Beauty“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Truth“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Home“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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Wisdom“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
Courage“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at 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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Knowledge“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Money“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Great“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth“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“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“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.”
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