Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
The best servant does his work unseen.
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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.