Commonly Quotes

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

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

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.