Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Science is the topography of ignorance.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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