 The Amen of nature is always a flower. |
| A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. |
| Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. |
| Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. |
| The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
| Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. |
| Love prefers twilight to daylight. |
| It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
| To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. |
| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
| Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. |
| Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. |
| People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. |
| I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
| Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. |
| It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. |
| Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. |
| Beware how you take away hope from another human being. |
| Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. |
| 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. Topics: Friendship |
