A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
• A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
• He who has never failed somewhere... that man can not be great.
• Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
• Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.