The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
From James Russell Lowell
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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