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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Live always in the best company when you read.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

What did my hands do before they held you?

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong sometimes it's letting go.