Society and the World

The printing-press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Everywhere the basis of principle is tradition.

The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Those who wish to seem learned to fools, seem fools to the learned. .

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

The people like neither the true nor the simple; they like novels and charlatans.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

After the great destructions / Everyone will prove that he was innocent.

After the great destructions / Everyone will prove that he was innocent.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Our system of morality is a body'of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

The hungry and the homeless don’t care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

The hungry and the homeless don’t care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.