All Quotes

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ”

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. ”

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ”

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ”

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ”

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. ”

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ”

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ”

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ”

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. ”