Which Quotes

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.