People, if you have any prayers,Say prayers for me:And lay me under a Christian stoneIn that lost land I thought my own,To wait till the holy horn is blown,And all poor men are free.
I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.
Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old on...
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the...
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good...
It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply...
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but ho...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells u...
They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom...
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm; but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
When he thought of a joke he made it, and was called brilliant. When he could not think of a joke he said that this was no time for trifling, and was called able.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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