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Last updated on April 13, 2025.
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
Humility is pride in God.
When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.
We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
Nations die first in the big cities.
Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.
Those who deserve love the least need it the most.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
Power should answer by action, not by speech.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
Art is one of man's few serious activities.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
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