Society and the World

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It is well that the stately synagogue should lift its walls by the side of the aspiring cathedral, a perpetual reminder that there are many mansions in Father’s earthly house as well as in the heavenly ones.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to^reak the bank of our answers.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

It is a very curious fact that, with all our boasted “free and equal superiority over the communities of the Old World, our people [Americans] have the most enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction.

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

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

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

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

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.