“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.”
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”
“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”
“People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.”
“Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.”
“Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.”
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.”
“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.”
“Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.”
“It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”
“And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”