A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.
Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
God reigneth. All is well.
If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.
The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men—from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
