924 quotes found
“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.”
“We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.”
“The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
“We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for comfor...”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himsel...”
“Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.”
“Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”
“For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?”
“I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
“Culture with us ends in headache.”
“The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.”
“As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.”
“We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.”
“Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.”
“So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.”
“I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.”
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.”
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
“Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.”
“Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.”
