Quotes 101 till 120 of 147.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI -
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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