As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
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