The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.
The truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
The majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness of our own jokes.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
Self-consciousness of manner which is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
