Quotes · page 1618

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they …

Only the most ignorant people can close their eyes to the bourgeois nature of the which is now taking place. Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are …

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping—anon—anon! There's joy in the mountains:

Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine.

These few have the passions of the one; and they unite to strengthen themselves, and to secure the gratification of their lawless passions at the expense of the general good.

Our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. Herein were seen two properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust; which He willeth should both be alike large; and thus our prayer pleaseth Him and He of His Goodness …

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Strange! that this general fraud from day to day Should fill the world with wretches undetected.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us.

The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.

I am mighty near one.

1953. Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

'Tis soothing, oh ! most soothing to the heart, To rove 'mid scenes where once we have been blest! Each tree, each blossom, has a thrilling charm; They seem memorials of those happier hours : The very sigh that tells they are no more, Is …

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.

Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for …

The life that I aspire to live No man proposeth me— No trade upon the street Wears its emblazonry.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

So, of a lone unhaunted place possess’d, Did this soul’s second inn, built by the guest, This living buried man, this quiet mandrake, rest.