29 quotes found
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
“The night is dark and I am far from home.”
“Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.”
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal”
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.”
“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”
“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own o...”
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of societyIt is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his...”
“And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is "a little, but well"; that...”
“God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another...”
“God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very mu...”
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Fath...”
“If then the power of speech is as great as any that can be named,if the origin of language is by many philosophers considered nothing short of divineif by means of words the secrets of the heart ar...”
“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.”
“It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.”
“The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.”
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
