The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Logic is like the sword
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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