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When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not read more
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say read more
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should read more
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.