“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“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.”

“Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked”

“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good”

“Shun such as lounge through afternoons and eves,And on thy dial write, "Beware of thieves!"Felon of minutes, never taught to feelThe worth of treasures which thy fingers steal,Pick my left pocket of its silver dime,But spare the right,--it holds my golden time!”