“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself
“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf
“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them