Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
