Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.