It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Beware of the man of one book.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

The poverty of goods is easily cured; the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.