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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures-be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matters; second, telling other people to do so.
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.
