Which Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.