A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 602
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. 644
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 623
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. 662
A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 656
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. 2.1K
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. 1.76K
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 617
