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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.
As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Corporations have been enthroned…. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people… until wealth is aggregated in a few hands… and the Republic is destroyed.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
The factory of the future will have two employees: a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value, a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
[About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.
