“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
History“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Education“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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
Science“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
Nature“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Knowledge“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Great“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
Best“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
Imagination“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
Music“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“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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Happiness“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“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“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
Home“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
Friendship“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“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
Friendship