Man’s mind, once stretched by new ideas, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words…

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

"Yet in opinions look not always back, — Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track;
Leave what you've done for what you have to do;
Don't be "consistent," but be simply true."