“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
Experience“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
Experience“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
Failure“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Great“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Wisdom“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
God“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
Best“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
Pet“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
Fear“We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
Faith“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.”
History“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
Love“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Nature“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
Travel“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Hope“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Truth“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
Great“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
Science“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Knowledge