Quotes

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide--that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life--are alike forbidden.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

To be a parent is almost to be a fatalist.

A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

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

[on direction] The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

The nearer you come in relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.