"Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true...." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

“No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.”

“There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.”

“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”

“To be direct and honest is not safe.”