English
Author
(November 22,
1819 -
December 22,
1880)
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world"
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."
"The only death you die is the one you die every day by not living."
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."
"Those who trust us educate us."
"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."
"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
