Quotes 401 till 420 of 479.
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
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Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Source: Of Treason -
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Source: Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse Rule 9 -
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
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Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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