Aphorisms
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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