It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
There’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world – and unless we touch others, we’re out of touch with life.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.