I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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