quotes of day Friday, July 3, 2026

“For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

“I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.”

“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”

“Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.”

“The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false.”

“What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!”

“We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.”

“Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.”

“Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.”

“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,Or who have found a painter to make them so for payAnd smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”

“you will always love, and you will always be loved”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.”

“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”

“This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,Has a learning in his eyeNot a poor fool understands.”