Have not I myself known five hundred living soldi
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as
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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed c
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Every human being has a right to hear what other
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
A stammering man is never a worthless one.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the thea
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to cons
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Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechani
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, i
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldi
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisp
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through wh
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Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
History is a great dust heap.
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