Wisdom Quotes — page 21

We must not overturn, the cases.

The very highest function of woman is to raise and train the family; it is the very highest function of man also.

Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.

They are not the axioms of higher logic, they are merely attempts to express the axioms of this logic in concepts. In reality the ideas of higher logic are inexpressible in concepts.

The angels keep their ancient places;— Turn but a stone, and start a wing! ‘Tis ye, ‘tis your estrangèd faces, That miss the many-splendoured thing.

That Indian thought has clearly exercised a determinative influence upon Greek philosophy is now a settled fact; of course, our Hellenists and philosophers have long disputed this with the violent obstinacy of prejudiced scholars; …

The monument outlasting bronze was promised well by bards of old.

The husband is not liable for the criminal conduct of his wife.

The questions we ask are "What?" and "How?" What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle diversion, we ask the question "Why?" the answer escapes us.

The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared, The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared; The wife of my bosom — Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

"When any of you wishes to demand a woman in marriage, if he can arrange it, let him see her first."

Francis must rank with those creative personalities to which all the deepest developments of Christian consciousness are due.

We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.

Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.

Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, …

Not even a public figure. A man of no experience. And of the utmost insignificance. The utmost insignificance.

the miracles of the messiah were calculated to convince those only who did not [Pg 82]see them. Thus it is, that these miracles are believed at present by people who would not credit those performed in their presence.

“For a little sould that cries oout aloud for continued personal existence for itseld and its beloved, there is no help. For the sould which know itself no more as a unit, but as part of the Universal Unit of which the Beloved also is …

From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs Order and Rule and Rectitude of Things, Thro' outward Nature, His Apparent Throne, Visibly seen, intelligibly known, — Proofs of a Boundless Pow'r, a Wisdom's Aid, By Goodness us'd, Eternal and …

All women are ambitious naturally.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…

None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant, or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightnings. Stone follows on stone, In regular succession after once the first step has been made, …