[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

The best servant does his work unseen.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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