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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by...
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. . . . Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid...
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Source: In...
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the...
The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home.
Source: Elegy in...
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather...
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested...
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a...
The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being...
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its...
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...
Literature has always been allegorical.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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Adventure is the champagne of life.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the...
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on...
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...
It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something...