A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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