Wisdom Quotes — page 473

Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are.

In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse, for the voice of the kingdom.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

I have lost, and lately, these Many dainty mistresses.

It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance.

A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

504. All between the Cradle and the Coffin is uncertain.

Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

Clarionet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.

Here, some are thinkin' on their sins, An' some upo' their claes.

in the form of the coasts of Asia, and

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot understand the animals' and plants' business, we have therefore denied that it can understand …

The cupolas of Persia are all constructed over brick walls, and are the continuation of the same wall with the same material.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

who shall say where is his dwelling-place or what his history! Man pauses breathless at the contemplation of a subject so much above his finite faculties, and only can wonder and adore!

Sound knowledge respecting the habits and mode of life of the man-like Apes has been even more difficult of attainment than correct information regarding their structure.

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.