Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.
Most mysteries are soluble in time.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
Life is being, not having.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
Humility is pride in God.
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
Nations die first in the big cities.
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
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