Wisdom Quotes — page 464

My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.

did not have... the material or the skilled hands. They therefore used plaster, and thenceforth the timbrel arch was introduced

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist – the problem is so entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

to find not only frequent additions to the previously existing forms, but frequent withdrawals

to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Oh, fond attempt to give a deathless lot To names ignoble, born to be forgot!

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness

They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

If you admit such methods, one can foresee that one day you will use torture, as was done in the Middle Ages.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?