Quotes · page 4

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Classes still remain, and will remain everywhere for years after the proletariat's conquest of power.

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

508. He that tells a secret is another's servant.

I should not be surprized at seeing a French Army conveyed by a British Navy to an attack upon this Kingdom.

I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He …

[B]y awakening the Heroic that slumbers in every heart, can any Religion gain followers.

To ourselves, in strict language, we can owe no duties, obligation requiring also two parties. Self-love, therefore, is no part of morality. Indeed, it is exactly its counterpart.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

It costs too much to worship God in public.

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters.

2592. I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.

The sunshine of the morning Is abroad upon the hills, With the singing of the green-wood leaves, And of a thousand rills.

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Did I tell you that I had quite a nice letter from Winston [Churchill]? I thought I ought to send him a line but I wasn't sure whether I should get an acknowledgement! I think he is the right man at the moment and I always did feel that …

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death — & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved …

But strive still to be a man before your mother.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth …

Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.

It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.