The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
If you are afraid for your future, you don't have a present.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
"It was as true", said Mr. Barkus, "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.