Wisdom Quotes — page 4

That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.

Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. (p. 235)

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.

Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe?

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!

Their avowedly undefinable position, if it be not capable of logical characterisation, seems to me to be characterised by an angry hatred of strict logic, and even some disposition to rate any exact thought which interferes with their …

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

if he regarded it as a lifeboat, or as a lighthouse, he would not allow his coachman to remain outside.

I cannot conceive, how a body, destitute of understanding and sense, truly so called, can moderate and determine its own motions; especially so as to make them conformable to laws that it has no knowledge of.

I invoked Aiwaz, was shown a phantasm of Baphomet, and suddenly determined to recognize this for Him!

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth …

It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

I am Providence, and Providence is myself—together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

For Rules, like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong.

The Simplicity of Figures depend upon the Simplicity of their Genesis and Ideas, and an Æquation is nothing else than a Description (either Geometrical or Mechanical) by which a Figure is generated and rendered more easy to the Conception.

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

Then he went off to bed.

I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.