 Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. |
| Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. |
| Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. |
| But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. |
| Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. |
| A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. |
| This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. |
| Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. |
| A new untruth is better than an old truth. |
| Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. |
| The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. |
