An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I h...ave a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consulta...tion. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.... No one can know how glad I am to find On any sheet the least display of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and ...to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, ...society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I--I have a tendency to ... if I get too mellow, I--I ripen and then rot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a worl...d to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever may be our just grievances in the southern states, it is fitting that we acknowledge that, considering their poverty and ...past relationship to the Negro race, they have done remarkably well for the cause of education among us. That the whole South should commit itself to the principle that the colored people have a right to be educated is an immense acquisition to the cause of popular education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »