Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
From Samuel Butler
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
12 perspectives
10 perspectives
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives