"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

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

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"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."

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."

"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."

"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."

"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

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

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned."

"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."

"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

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

"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."

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

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

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

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

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

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

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

"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."

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

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."