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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Speak not too well of one who scarce will know Himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, Remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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.