“The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character.”
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“The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say 'I' and 'me.'”
“The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.”
“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
“To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.”
“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”