Wisdom of the day · 18 October 2026

Little strokes fell great oaks.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

The seeker is the finder: whoever searches in earnest will find.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.