Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.
So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
Music always just cuts to the core and fills your heart.
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat. , Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.