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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin,...
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the...
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest...
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the...
I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of...
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,...
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature....
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is...
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
Source: A Week on the...
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects....
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds...
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of...
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one...
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Source: Journals, 1906, entry for 13 Nov...
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., . . . I...