I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. |
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. |
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. |
I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment. |
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. |
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. |
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes |
I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. |
I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. |
I hate quotations. |
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. |
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. |
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow |
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... |
I like man, but not men |