“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Nature“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 Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Nature“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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Art“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
Faith“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
Imagination“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
Great“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“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“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“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“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“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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Wisdom“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 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“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Friendship“Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.”
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