A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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