H.P. Oliver Quotes
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
