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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if... →
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on... →
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of... →
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not... →
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.