Quotes 21 till 40 of 707.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
Character Ch. VI -
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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