Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man: he loves to see him work.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Children need models rather than critics.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Space is the stature of God.

To teach is to learn twice.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Ask the young. They know everything.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Style is the thought itself.