Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are...

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are...

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

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...

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...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination,...

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination,...