Literature Quotes - Page 61

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

Every man is his own hell.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.