To suppress free speech is a double wrong. it violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
The best way out is through.
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
He ate and drank the precious words, his spirit grew robust; he knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was dust.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
The brain is wider than the sky.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Forever is composed of nows.
I dwell in possibility.
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.