Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.