Men to a great extent believe what they want to - although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want |
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. |
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same |
Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death |
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left. |
No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor |
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered |
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. |
Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what |
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. |
Old Ironsides |
Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years |
One has to strike the jugular and let the rest go |
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |