Quotes · page 1615

The clergy are as like as peas.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order …

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Friends are ourselves.

Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf, Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf

we at once see that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

The same heart beats in every human breast!

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Nature does not make your existence depend upon me, or mine depend upon yours.

One thing, however, I hope I may without offense affirm of these swamp-dwellers--they were pious. To what deity their veneration was given--whether, like the Egyptians, they worshiped the crocodile, or, like other Americans, adored …

Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

The limits of the body seem well defined enough as definitions go, but definitions seldom go far.

Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly but surely cleaving a path through the …

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may Infinity Eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it …

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is …

It is here that Indians build temples for Mohammedans and Christians; nowhere else. If you go to other countries and ask Mohammedans or people of other religions to build a temple for you, see how they will help. They will instead try to …