Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

You can't have genius without patience.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament