The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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