Nature
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.3.7 · 40 votes · 122 reads
Virtues
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.4.6 · 18 votes · 48 reads
Virtues
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.4.7 · 40 votes · 195 reads
Thought and Reason
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.4.7 · 22 votes · 193 reads
Thought and Reason
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.4.0 · 64 votes · 77 reads
Defects
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.3.2 · 21 votes · 55 reads
Art and Culture
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.3.9 · 59 votes · 114 reads
Art and Culture
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.4.9 · 39 votes · 170 reads
Virtues
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.4.2 · 24 votes · 129 reads
Thought and Reason
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.3.0 · 23 votes · 78 reads
Thought and Reason
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.4.4 · 27 votes · 193 reads
Nature
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.4.6 · 38 votes · 194 reads
Virtues
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.5.0 · 33 votes · 136 reads
Nature
To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.5.0 · 32 votes · 136 reads
Science and Technology
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.3.8 · 17 votes · 3 reads
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