It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Anger is a brief lunacy.
Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
When you know better you do better.
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
