312 quotes found
“The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.”
“For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes s...”
“When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre...”
“When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.”
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.”
“I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.”
“We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”
“A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything ...”
“Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug or throw themselves down before they always did they always will and if you don't make it of wood you must make it of words.”
“Apology - a desperate habit and one that is rarely cured.”
“Imitation is a necessity of human nature.”
“A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.”
“The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.”
“Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.”
“The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command.”
“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.”
“Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.”
“The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.”
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.”
