Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
All promise outruns performance.
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
Revolutions go not backward.
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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