All Quotes

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. ”

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ”

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ”

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. ”

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. ”

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object. ”

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived. ”

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ”

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. ”

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me. ”