 A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. |
| It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. |
| Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. |
| Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. |
| Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. |
| The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. |
| The history of art is the history of revivals. |
| The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. |
| The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. |
| There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. |
| For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. |
| Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Topics: Life |
| And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. |
| The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. |
| Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. |
| Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. |
| There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. |
| Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. |
