Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted...

If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one,...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.