Which Quotes

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.