If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. |
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. |
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. |
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. |
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain |
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. |
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. |
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. |
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,/ Lead thou me on;/ The night is dark, and I am far from home,/ Lead thou me on. |
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. |
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. |
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. |
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it |
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it |
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. |