Wisdom Quotes — page 5

It is only prejudice against the negro which calls every one, however nearly connected with the white race, and however remotely connected with the negro race, a negro

In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from …

One fool at least in every married couple.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I was present when he died. That morning Sukey brought him his breakfast, as usual. He could not swallow. His niece, Mrs. Willis, said, "What is the matter, Uncle Jeames?" "Nothing more than a …

Pythagoras... applied the proportion he had thus found by experiments, to the Heavens

Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights' sensations.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Few men, whatever their creed, would now seek their geology in the books of their religion, or, on the other hand, would fancy that the laboratory or the microscope could help them to penetrate the mysteries which hang over the nature and …

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; — And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

It is the subjects which might be imitated by pieces of paper of varying depth of color laid one over the other, which are the subjects that will give more readily the greater satisfaction.

Variety. ...Movement, contrast, and accent all contribute to variety... the spice of life... Monotony and dryness are lurking enemies which may be vanquished by variety.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

To know is the difference between walking in the darkness and in the light, and to understand the laws of Nature is to gain the power of quickening our evolution by utilizing every law that hastens our growth, by avoiding the working of …

Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.

Hospitality sitting with Gladness.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

It is the constant harmony of chance and determination which makes it eternally new and living.

Sculpture has still for the most part remained untouched by the so-called modern tendencies and movements. It still stands there, noble and sublime.