Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.