It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. |
Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. |
Now I know that so long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs; we shall have men who bully and truckle, and women who snub and crawl. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life. |
Primitive societies without religion have never been found. |
Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month |
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. |
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. |
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection |
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. |
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. |
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. |
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. |
They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank. |
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. |
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. |