[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have…

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at,...

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at,...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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

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

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed...

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed...

Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it....

Friendship I've discovered a way to stay friends forever -- There's really nothing to it....

Love lasts when the relationship comes first.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.