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There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling...
In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness...
. . . rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising...
She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both...
It takes little talent to see what is under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that...
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their...
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait...
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive,...
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of...
Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is...
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to...
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips,...
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her...
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into...
It's inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and...
Castles in the air -- they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has...
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I...
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and...