In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph |
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government |
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. |
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. |
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. |
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. |
It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. |
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe |
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see |
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. |
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. |
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes |
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair! |
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. |
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man |