The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place.
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
