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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.