Society and the World

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.

 

Come good times or bad, there is always a market for things nobody needs.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

 

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.