One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

You just cant predict baseball

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.