Children are all foreigners.
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.
Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Knowledge is power.
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
The money men make lives after them.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
