Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.
His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it Gifts, and some New Light. A lib'ral art, that costs no pains Of study, industry, or brains.
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as u...
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remai...
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every c...
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
