Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Every wall is a door.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
There is always safety in valor.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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