Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies
Advised every literary man to have a profession.
Afraid of books who have not handled them from infancy
Age and neglect united gradually
Agreed on certain ultimata of belief
Algebraic symbols of minds which have
grown too weak
All his geese are swans
All men are bores, except when we want
them
All men love all women
All the forms of moral excellence,
except truth
All want to reach old age and grumble
when they get it
And now we two are walking the long
path in peace together
Another privilege of talking is to
misquote
Arc in the movement of a large
intellect
As I understand truth
As to clever people’s hating each other
As a child, he should have tumbled
about in a library
Asked Solon what made him dare to be so
obstinate
Assume a standard of judgment in our
own minds
At the mercy of every superior mind
Audacious self-esteem, with good ground
for it
Automatic and involuntary actions of
the mind
Babbage’s calculating machine
Be very careful to whom you trust one
of these keys
Beautiful effects from wit,—all the
prismatic colors
Been in the same precise circumstances
before
Behave like men and gentlemen about it,
if you know how.
Beliefs are rooted in human wants and
weakness, and die hard
Bells which small trades-people connect
with their shop-doors
Better for mankind,—and all the worse
for the fishes
Better too few words, from the woman we
love
Bewitching cup of self-quackery
Bill which will render pockets a
superfluity in your next suit
Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy
Bowing and nodding over the music
Brain often runs away with the heart’s
best blood
Brilliant flashes—of silence!
Brute beasts of the intellectual domain
Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams,
hopes, and terrors
But we must sail, and not drift, nor
lie at anchor.
But it was in talking of Life that we
came most nearly together
Called an old man for the first time
Character is distinctly shown at the
age of four months.
Cigar
Clairvoyance which sees into things
without opening them
Code of finalities is a necessary
condition of profitable talk
Cold shower-bath the world furnishes
gratis
Comfort is essential to enjoyment
Commerce is just putting his granite
foot upon them
